Transport

Action to safeguard imports of medicines to begin this week despite likely Brexit delayNo-deal contingency plans to safeguard medicine imports are set to be triggered on Wednesday, despite the potential delay to Brexit, with approved suppliers told to …

The decline in the UK of young people taking to the wheel is encouraging, says Bruce Ross-Smith, cars are blighting everything, says Susan Woodford, and David Halley sees an urgent need to get rid of themI hope George Monbiot (Cars ruin our lives. With…

Driving is ruining our lives, and triggering environmental disasters. Only drastic action will kick our dependencyIt’s the last straw. Parked outside the hospital doors is a minibus with its engine running. The driver is playing on his mobile phone. Th…

Measures to cut emissions could include free bus travel, says Friends of the EarthCampaigners have called for free bus travel and the reopening of hundreds of miles of railway lines to end reliance on cars, as transport is due to be confirmed as the UK…

Aim to reclaim polluted streets from traffic has been met with ‘hate and anger’ from someAs the lights change, the thundering morning traffic comes to a stop at one of London’s busiest junctions. Hundreds of people on bikes seize their chance and strea…

Major research also shows charging polluting trucks had no effect on healthPollution from diesel vehicles is stunting the growth of children’s lungs, leaving them damaged for life, a major study has found.The research, conducted with more than 2,000 sc…

HGVs, buses and coaches would pay full fee with taxis and LGVs paying £12.50Drivers of the most polluting vehicles, could be charged up to £50 a day to enter Leeds under radical new plans to cut air pollution in the Yorkshire city.The Clean Air Zone (C…

If transport workers or members of the public see someone who looks like they need help, please treat them as individualsEvery day brings news of novel, cruel and unusual indignities inflicted on a human daring to travel while disabled. In the latest d…

Visiting abattoirs | Frances Ryan | Healthy sperm | Economics | School skirts | Body odourWhen I was at grammar school over 50 years ago, the fifth form was taken to visit an abattoir on a school trip (Why children should visit abattoirs, 4 July). I’ve…

Upskirting | Sir Matt Busby | Sign language | Vegetarianism | Thameslink | Clive JamesOnce the law is eventually passed to class upskirting as the criminal offence it clearly is (Upskirting bill is blocked by single Tory objection, 16 June), can the po…

Scheme will cover North and South Circular roads, as well as capital’s centre, in 2021Sadiq Khan has unveiled details of his plan to introduce an “ultra-low emission zone” covering a huge swath of London in the next few years.The scheme, which will see…

Guardian readers respond to Michael Gove’s defence of what the government is doing to address air pollutionWe must cut through the smog of rhetoric if we are to have clean air. Through deft political sleight of hand, the environment secretary Michael G…

Railway ecosystem | Allergic rhinitis | Woody Guthrie and Carillion | Royal wedding romcom? | Prince HarryIt’s not just trees (We can’t chop down all these trees and not harm ourselves, 15 May). The railway ecosystem includes many other types of plant….

The UK’s abundant woodland has proven health benefits. That’s why Network Rail’s destructive scheme must be opposedIn 2001 there were 1.3bn trees in England. That’s 25 for every person in the country, the highest numbers since the first world war. One …

Parts of UK on red alert as extreme weather threatens further transport disruption Hundreds of people stranded on a motorway in Scotland on Wednesday were stuck in their cars overnight as severe snow caused widespread disruption in the UK.Parts of the …

Outsourcing has become a way of life in British politics: but its list of failures and disappointments is lengtheningInteraction between the private and public sectors can be a politically charged process in the UK, not least when the contracts that u…

Some automation brings benefits, says Roger Backhouse, but people need human interaction too; while 13 signatories to a letter say that Christmas is the perfect time to tackle the UKâ€™s loneliness epidemicTwo connected stories in Mondayâ€™s Guardian: …

Every morning groups of cyclists gather to ride the parkâ€™s Outer Circle. As cycling gains momentum in the city, more circuits might flourishItâ€™s half past seven on a mild October morning, just getting light, and I am waiting with my bike at one of …